I have a technique that allows me to recover from almost any problem with OS X or a particular program in 15 minutes or less. I’ve fine-tuned this method over a year and a half of OS X beta testing and while it’s not for everyone, it works like a [...]

As users of one of the most secure operating systems there is, OS X, many of us don’t often think of things like encryption, trojan horses, hackers or the such. A friend on one of the e-mail lists I belong got a rude awakening this week to the awful truth [...]

There’s some talk on the net at the moment about honesty being the best policy and people being paid huge sums of money (oh, I wish!) to say great things about Apple…..so I’m ‘fessing up straight off. The wonderful people at Renaissance kindly gave me a copy of Tiger to [...]

With every significant release of any interesting or special technology comes the Anandtech review of said technology, and the Apple Thunderbolt Display is no different. The thing about Anandtech reviews is that they are incredibly thorough, so if there was anything you ever wanted to know about the Apple Thunderbolt [...]

Apple has been fined $1.2 million for misleading Italian consumers on the warranty period of their products, says Ars Technica. There’s a law in Italy that guarantees consumers a two-year warranty period on all products they purchase — including Apple products — and apparently Apple hasn’t been clear enough about [...]

If Steve Jobs has seemed impatient waiting for Photoshop to come out Mac OS X native, then imagine how the rest of us feel. We’d be happy just to have it open in Aqua, and be a Wet Version 6. But Adobe can’t usher out a mere OS X...

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I had initially found the enjoyment of Mac hardware through my purchase of a second hand B&W G3 (which I considered a discovery type buy), fantastic – but a little slow for my work as a web developer. So in need of a little more power...

There’s some talk on the net at the moment about honesty being the best policy and people being paid huge sums of money (oh, I wish!) to say great things about Apple…..so I’m ‘fessing up straight off. The wonderful people...

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Find the Center
To find the center of the contents of a layer, choose View>Show Rulers and then call up Free transform by hitting Command-T.
While the Free Transfoprm rectangle is visible, you can drag guides out of the rulers and they will...

Get Rid of Fringe Pixels
Sometimes when you combine multiple images for a collage, you see a slight fringe around the edges of layers that are copied from other images.
In many cases you can remove that fringe by going to Layers> Matting>...

Accessing Grayed out Areas in CMYK
If you’re working in CMYK mode, you’ll notice that many of the filters are "grayed out" in the filter menu, so you cannot access them. Rather than converting to RGB, which could affect...

Use the Extract Command to Create Border Effects
To create an unusual border effect, open the Extract command (Filter>Extract) and use the edge highlighter tool to paint some edges.
To get straight lines, click once, hold down shift key and...

Edit the Shape of Letters
If you need to alter the shape of some text, try this: from the Layer menu, go to Type>Create Work path.
This will put a path around your type as if you drew it with the Pen tool. Then either hide or delete the type...

Another Photoshop prank
Thanks to a feature added in Photoshop 7, you can now pull one of my favorite Adobe Illustrator pranks on your Photoshop coworkers or friends that will drive them just this side of insane. Adobe put a pop-up list of language...

If Steve Jobs has seemed impatient waiting for Photoshop to come out Mac OS X native, then imagine how the rest of us feel. We’d be happy just to have it open in Aqua, and be a Wet Version 6. But Adobe can’t usher out a mere OS X...

Step-and-Repeat
Photoshop’s Edit>Free Transform command (Command-T) offers some additional keyboard shortcuts for "step-and-repeat" functions that can be very useful:
To make the same transformation again, for an additive...

Working with Guides
Hold Option to change the direction of the guide (horizontal/vertical), hold Shift to snap it to the tick marks of your ruler, and hold Command to move a guide when using a tool other than the move tool.
Hold the Control...